Chap. 260.—An ACT to provide for regulation of dogs running at large or chasing
deer in the county of Augusta, and to provide certain penalties. [S 252]

Approved March 16, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to permit or
allow or fail to prevent his dogs from chasing deer at any time in the
county of Augusta, or running at large at any time in a game refuge or
running at large in a National Forest in such county in the period from
April one through September one, both inclusive, of any year.

Section 2. Any person whose dogs are found chasing deer or run-
ning at large in any such area or county in violation of the provisions
of section one of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars
nor more than twenty-five dollars for the first offense and for the second
such offense shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars
nor more than fifty dollars, and for the third offense shall be punished
by a fine of fifty dollars and the game warden shall destroy the dogs so
chasing deer or running at large in violation of the provisions of this
act as provided in section seventy of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog
Code, or deliver to some individual living in some other county where
deer can be hunted with dogs, conditioned on the dog not returning to
Augusta County. Only violations occurring in any twelve month period
shall constitute second or third offenses as requisite.

Section 3. Any game warden or other like officer who at any time
has good reason to believe that any dog has been running at large in vio-
lation of the provisions of this act, although not seen by him in the act,
or to whom complaint 1s made, under oath, by any person, that any dog
has been seen, or known to have been running at large in violation of
the provision of this act, within a period of three months next preceding
the making of such complaint, shall apply to a proper officer of the
county, or city, wherein the dog is, who shall issue a warrant, and pro-
ceedings shall be had thereon, all in conformity so far as practicable with
the provisions of section seventy of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code
of Virginia.

Section 4. The provisions of this act shall not become effective in
any county until adopted by the governing body of the county.

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